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...Napoleon's four brothers, was a double-gaited dandy who knew a thing or two about bad luck. His wife fell in love with his boy friend. To console himself, Louis wrote wispy verses. In 1809, to spite his brother, he quit his job as King of Holland and ran away to sulk for a couple of years in Austria. In 1814, when the allies invaded France, he had no time to fight-he was too busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though syphilitic and confined to a wheelchair...
...complained a Chamber of Commerce speaker at the luncheon for De Gaulle. "The internationalizing of modern Europe should force France into relying on the few strong regions she possesses, giving them a better chance of catching up with the European industrial level. Due to their economic policies, Belgium and Holland have attracted a great number of foreign businesses of considerable magnitude...
...says Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of the French magazine L'Express. Converted from a leftist political weekly to a newsmagazine only 18 months ago, L'Express has more than doubled its circulation to 280,000. Last spring Belgium produced its first newsmagazine. Special; last October Holland's biggest weekly, Elseviers, changed to a newsmagazine format. Italy's L'Espresso plans to make the change this year, and Italy's Vita, a newsmagazine with a disproportionate emphasis on political exposes and movie queens, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. Granddaddy of them...
Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it was quite sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with...
...make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched a warder flogging a prisoner...